Club Aeromodelers organized in the mid-70s.  Early flying sites included the present industrial park south of town and the St. Bernard campus on the east side of Cullman.  Early club interests were sport flying and precision aerobatics.  Members learned to proceed from basic skills to a full range of aerobatic maneuvers using planes they had constructed from commercial kits or from plans.  A season highlight was, and remains, the annual pattern contest.  Contestants fly precision aerobatics in classes divided according to pilot skill.  Each class has a set of maneuvers suitable to challenge the pilots in the class.  The fun here is in the competition.  Each pilot strives to demonstrate perfect control of his plane regardless of conditions.  Judges score each attempt with the high score winning the class.

In 1990, the club began negotiations for the right to fly in the pasture south of Childhaven children's home on the north side of Cullman.  An asphalt runway 40 x 400 was laid.  The club began using the site in July, 1991, and continues to operate it.  This is Austin-McQuiag Field.  It is the favorite of flyers from the north side of the county.  Pilots can often be found in the evening catching a few flights after work.

The club leased Burdeshaw Field on the old city landfill in February of 1994.  After a lot of grading and fill work, an asphalt runway 45 x 500 was laid.  The occupied the site in June of '94.  This site is particularly suited for radio controlled flight because of its openess.  We have fly-over rights to 167 acres.  Because it was previously a landfill, Federal regulation require that trees be kept off it for many years.  As a result, the tree line in front of the runway is over 800 feet out with landing approaches having no trees within 600 feet of the runway ends.

In 2007, we accepted the down side of flying on a landfill.  The weight of the asphalt and the unsteady ground beneath it caused the runway to develope a number of rolls and cracks.  An attempt to repair the worst of these had been made in 2000, but lasted only a couple of years.  In the spring of 2007, we temporarily closed Burdeshaw Field for repairs.  The asphalt was stripped off and a landing strip of Tipto Bermuda grass 75 x 600 was rolled out.  As time has passed, we've found the grass to be cooler to fly from, easier on equipment and, best of all, it has stayed FLAT.  The flying site continues to improve each year as we groom it.